Engineering Impact is a weekly newsletter that highlights trends in engineering leadership, productivity, culture, and scaling development teams.
This week features posts on: Product, Culture, Hiring, and Leadership.
PRODUCT
The first principles of product management
“Great product managers fuse these two principles into all their decisions and everything they do should derive from them.” By taking a deep dive on the ‘first principles’, Brandon Chu, Director of Product at Shopify, illuminates the craft of product management.
CULTURE
The cost center trap
Mary Poppendieck, author of Lean Software Development, explores the origins and pitfalls of being in a cost center, and proposes a method for escape.
HIRING
How to avoid turning off great engineering and design talent before you meet
Ben Jackson, Principal at For the Win, serves up the do’s and dont’s of recruiting, and how to pass “the bullsh*t filter” when reaching out to great talent.
LEADERSHIP
5 things I learned the hard way as a manager of managers
Rich Archbold, Director of Engineering at Intercom, with a thoughtful piece “that might make your transition to a manager of managers a little easier and more successful.”
Ben Thompson is a co-founder at GitPrime where he leads design and customer experience. He is a Y Combinator alumni, with a background in product design, branding, and UX design. Follow @thebent on Twitter.
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